Dealer called me on a Monday to say they had the BMW Aus press car if I would like a test drive.
I had no intent of buying a car.
Test drove it Monday morning, they also had a cancelled order sitting in the warehouse, picked up the new car on Thursday.
This was August 2012, no plans to sell, but if I do it'd be for a Porsche.

Put a Â£1000 down with my dealer when it was hinted that something special may be coming from BMW. That turned out to be the 1M and boy was my dealer right this is something special. Picked up brand new end June 2011, 18000 miles and no plans to sell.

Placed initial deposit July 2010
Received allocation August 2011
Took delivery December 2011 (in middle of snow storm!)

Currently 6K wonderful miles of driving bliss

Car is everything I was hoping for. No plans to ever sell.

Funny to think there were heated discussions on this forum concerning the lack of a DCT or bespoke motor. Also ironic that a parts bin special developed on a shoestring budget turns out to be one of BMW's iconic cars.

AW with all options
EOI placed October 2010
Ordered with deposit December 2010
March 2011 built
Delivery June 2011, the 2nd 1M to arrive in Australia
Sold September 2012 with 24,000ks

BSM with almost all options and a few mods
Bought another new 1M after calling 20 dealers to find one
Picked up Vader August 2012
Just clocked 10,000ks
Great car, nothing YET interests me enough to sell

Put a £1000 down with my dealer when it was hinted that something special may be coming from BMW. That turned out to be the 1M and boy was my dealer right this is something special.

Oh, and the excitement does not stop as time moves on: check the enthusiasm at the dealership when you bring this rare bird in for maintenance. Guess who's the favorite/pet of the classroom most (if not all) techs/mechanics and managers want to treat ? So yes, there is something about this car, some sort of aura/halo, that makes it a league of its own.

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“For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich” (W. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3)

Multiple deposits left in Dec 2010
Jul 2011 picked up my VO 1M, PCD
Sept 2011 had AW delivered to my house via flat bed
Nov 2011 sold the AW with 7 miles on it and still had plastic on the seats
Still have the VO, 18.5k miles

Ordered mine in October 2011. Kinda by surprise actually. I originally went to the BMW dealer to test drive a Mini JCW. After the test drive I saw a big M3 poster on the wall and said " I would prefer that one or even better, a 1M if it wasn't sold out" The sales lady smiled and kindly replied " ooh you can still order the 1M"
Long story short. I went home, did some calculations, had a look at the available options and ordered it the next day. I ordered it as a white one but a few months before the delivery was planned, I changed it to VO. No regrets there :-).
Mine is built in Juin and was ready for delivery in July.
If I didn't make that remark on the poster, I would be in the MINI section of this forum not knowing I could be owning my dream car because it truly is a dream come true !!

No deposit, found it on the showroom, asked if i could hear the engine, grabbed the key and locked the car. didnt want any filthy shoes or hands get on my baby took delivery 1 week later on April 27th 2012.

Funny to think there were heated discussions on this forum concerning the lack of a DCT or bespoke motor. Also ironic that a parts bin special developed on a shoestring budget turns out to be one of BMW's iconic cars.

I agree. I think the funnest discussions on this forum was from people saying the 1M would be sitting on the BMW lots waiting for discounts to get rid of them... This one still has me laughing

Looked for months..put $$ down at three dealers, one in USA and two here in Germany thru mil sales.

Got a "yes" call from Florida and ordered car.

Found out I couldn't do ED and would have to ship car at own expense from FL to Germany where I'm stationed and then back to USA when finished here plus pay FL taxes...all total...$14,000 above sticker... so waved off purchase allowing some other Jacksonville FL owner the opportunity to buy.

Got a call from days later from military sales dealer, had 10 minutes to decide if I wanted it.
Placed order for VO with most options, August 2011
Oct 2011 built
Nov 11, 2011 delivery

Car 739 out of 740! Great car, made some mods like brakes and intercooler, tracked it a bit...overall fantastic and a keeper! As of July 13, 2013, almost 13,000 miles.